An Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga - Sat 16th and sun 17th January

Hi Everyone

For those of you coming along at the weekend.

The Edmonstone Hall is on the left hand side off the main road as you drive through Blanefield away from Bearsden.  It is a detatched white church-like building with its own car park and is beside the police station.    For entry we do not use the front door rather  the second door down on the right hand side of the building.  There may be quite a few cars there so please park wisely!  If the car park is full there is plenty of residential parking around within walking distance of the hall.

Please bring a blanket and a yoga block with you if you have one.  Anyone who has a portable type heater can you please bring it with you in case of extremely cold weather!  Hopefully the hall will be nice and warm, its just in case!

The course starts at 10am and finishes at 1pm.  There will an extremely short toilet break only as we've got a lot to pack in so please make sure you eat breakfast but do not eat anything after about 8.30.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Jo x

Wednesday 6 January Blanefield Class Cancelled

Sorry everyone, due to the weather thought it best to cancel tomorrow evenings class in Blanefield. Hope to see you next week.

Jo x

Happy New Year to you all.

Well done all those who made it to class this morning through the snow, what a dedicated bunch you are, either that or just desperate to work off all those mince pies!!

I've just finished my practice and am torn between doing the washing or going  off sledging before the kids get out of school and ruin all the good snow.

Sledging it is. It's just too gorgeous outside to miss the opportunity.


Jx

Merry Xmas everyone

Thank you one and all for coming to my classes this year.  I hope all that yoga has helped make it a good one and that you have enjoyed it as much as I have. 

I wish you all a wonderful Xmas and I look forward to seeing you all in what I hope will be healthy, happy and peaceful New Year for you all.

Classes begin again on the following dates:

Ski club Tuesday class - 5 January
Ski Club Thursday class - 7 January
Ski Club Monday class - 11 January
Monday evening Cairns Church - 4 January
Wednesday evening Blanefield - 6 January

Om Shanti

Jo x

An Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga

For those of you who expressed an interest, the date for the abovementioned course is now confirmed :

Saturday 16th Jan 10am - 1pm
Sunday 17th Jan 10 am - 1pm

The venue is the Edmonstone Hall in Blanefield, which is where my Wednesday evening class takes place.  Should anyone need directions please let me know.

Looking forward to it.

Jo

Get Well Message

Have had lots of poor students off with sickness or due to sick kids so just wanted to say hope you all get better soon.

Jo x

An Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga

Hi All

I will be running a new course focused on the fundamental elements and postures of ashtanga yoga. The course is open to everyone and will be particularly beneficial to complete beginners and to those who joined my led classes after they had been up and running for a while and perhaps missed the basics taught at the beginning. It will also be useful for anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of the practice, or who just fancies going back to basics.

This 6 hour course will cover the following:

* The eight limbs of yoga
* The breathing system, 'vinyasa' (synchronized breath and movement)
* Bandhas (internal energy locks) and Drishtis (gaze points)
* The asana of the primary series will be covered in some detail to ensure they are practised correctly with close attention being paid to variations to make the practice suitable for all.

The course will provide you with a strong foundation from which to grow your practice and get more out of a led class.

So if you are coming to a led class and you don't understand any of the above, please come along, or if you know someone who has never done ashtanga before but you think would enjoy the practice please let them know.

I am hoping to the run the course in January sometime probably over two Saturdays at 3 hours a time. If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible as I will need to guage numbers interested to determine the size of space I need to let. Obviously availability of halls will determine dates but I will try to accommodate everyone as best I can.

The cost of the course will be £35, so let Santa know!

Jo x